Martin Loschnigg - The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film

JEAN ANDERSON is Associate Professor and Programme Director for French at Victoria University of Wellington, and editor of the New Zealand Journal of French Studies . Her recent publications include Seeing Double: Representing Otherness in the Franco-Pacific Thriller, in The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations (Continuum, 2012), which she co-edited with Carolina Miranda and Barbara Pezzotti. They are currently working on a book on serial crime fiction.

MARLENE A. BRIGGS is Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on questions of memory, mourning, and trauma in her teaching of twentieth-century literature. Her research examines the legacies of the First World War in three generations of British writers ranging from Wilfred Owen to Carol Ann Duffy. She has published on D. H. Lawrence, Doris Lessing, Virginia Woolf, and others.

ANGELA BRINTLINGER is Professor of Slavic Studies at Ohio State University. She holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Wisconsin and MA degrees in Russian from Wisconsin and Middlebury College. She is the author of two monographs: Chapaev and his Comrades: War and the Russian Literary Hero across the Twentieth Century (2012) and Writing a Usable Past: Russian Literary Culture, 19171937 (2000), as well as a number of edited collections, including Chekhov for the 21st Century (2012), Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture (2007), and the translation into English of Vladislav Khoda-sevichs biography of the Russian poet Gavriil Derzhavin (2007). In Spring 2013 she was honored to hold the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Slavic Studies at Warsaw University.

GEERT BUELENS is Professor of Modern Dutch Literature at Utrecht University, guest professor of Dutch Literature at Stellenbosch University (RSA) and Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress (2008). His research deals primarily with the intersections between literature and society. He has published widely on the Flemish avant-garde writer Paul van Ostaijen and on twentieth-century avant-garde poetry, nationalist literature and poetry of the First World War. He is the author of Van Ostaijen tot heden. Zijn invloed op de Vlaamse pozie (Vantilt/ KANTL, 2001, 20012, 20083, winner of the Flemish Culture Prize for Essay and Criticism, 2003), a collection of essays on poetry and society, Oneigenlijk gebruik (Vantilt, 2008) and a monograph on European First World War poetry ( Europa Europa , Ambo, 2008 ABN-AMRO Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 2008), translated into German as Europas Dichter und der Erste Weltkrieg (Suhrkamp 2014); an English translation will be published in 2015 by Verso. He edited the anthologies De beste gedichten van 2001 and the largest collection of First World War poetry, over 200 poems from thirty languages ( Het lijf in slijk geplant , Ambo, 2008). He is co-editor of the Journal of Dutch Literature and a regular contributor to Belgian and Dutch newspapers. His current research is on the cultural history of the 1960s, the writing of national and international literary histories, neutrality and the First World War and the interplay between poetry and song writing since the Romantic Era.

MAURIZIO CINQUEGRANI joined Film Studies at the University of Kent in September 2012, having previously taught at London Metropolitan University, Birkbeck College, and Kings College London. In 2011 he participated in the Camden Town Group in Context research project at Tate Britain with a contribution looking at the relationship between early film practices and the work of Walter Sickert, Malcolm Drummond and other artists. In 2012 he also worked as filmic cartographer at the University of Liverpool in an AHRC-funded research project entitled Cinematic Geographies of Battersea: Urban Interface & Site-Specific Spatial Knowledge. He received his PhD in Film Studies from Kings College London in 2010, with a thesis on early British cinema and urban space. He has an MA in Contemporary Cinema Cultures from Kings College London and a BA in Film Studies from the University of Bologna. His first monograph, Of Empire and the City: Remapping Early British Cinema , was published in 2014 by Peter Lang.

ALICIA FAHEY is a Doctoral Student in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia and a specialist in Canadian literature and visual studies. Her research examines exhibition catalogues of Canadian war art from the First and Second World Wars and the ways in which these catalogues, when read in conjunction with other literary and visual representations of the Wars, re-enforce or re-imagine Canadian master narratives and official histories. Recent publications include the exhibition and catalogue The Iron Pulpit: Missionary Printing Presses of British Columbia with the University of British Columbias Rare Books and Special Collections, as well as research and editorial contributions to the production of an edition of P. K. Pages poetry, Kaleidoscopes , and an edition of Pages Mexican Journal . Alicia is currently working on a critical edition of Sheila Watsons The Double Hook .

PHIL FITZSIMMONS is an Associate Professor of Education at Avondale College of Higher Education. Prior to taking up this appointment he was Director of Research at the San Roque Research Institute, Santa Barbara, California. His research interests are in the fields of literacy and literature, and in particular visual literacy in new modalities of adolescent reading. Recent publications related to this particular research agenda include: Connectivity and Text: Finding Self Through the Use of Graphic Novels, in press, in Connectivity Across Borders, Boundaries and Bodies: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Oxford: Interdisciplinary Press); When Theres Love Inside Theres a Reason Why. Emotion as the core of authentic learning in one middle school classroom, in Literacy Learning in the Middle Years 19. 2 (2011); Popular Culture as Possibilities, Paradigms and Prerogatives for Literacy Learning: Giving voice to middle school students, in Talking Points 21. 2 (2010); and A Rebirth of Myth and Monster: An old sign in a new framework in Myth and Symbol 4. 2 (2007).

BRIGITTE JOHANNA GLASER (Prof. Dr.) teaches English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Gttingen (Germany). She has published two monographs on eighteenth-century fiction and seventeenth-century autobiographical writing respectively. During the last few years her research focus and publications have been on colonial and postcolonial literature as well as transnational writing. A co-edited volume of essays on The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Trans-nationalism appeared in 2010.

SHERILL GRACE is a University Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include Canadian Literature and Culture, Theatre, Autobiography and Biography, Modernism, Literature and the Arts (Interdisciplinary Studies), Theory, Editing, Womens Literature. She has published over 200 articles, chapters, and review articles, as well as 24 books, including Sursum Corda! , the two-volume edition of Malcolm Lowrys letters, the monographs Inventing Tom Thomson (2004) and Canada and the Idea of North (2001; 2007), and the co-edited book, Theatre and AutoBiography (2006). Her most recent books are the biography Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock (2008), On the Art of Being Canadian (2009), and the co-edited volume Bearing Witness: Perspectives on War and Peace from the Arts and Humanities (2012). Her major study of post-1977 Canadian literature and culture, Landscapes of Memory: Canadian Literary and Artistic Representations of the Two World Wars, 1977 to 2007 , appeared in the spring of 2014. Professor Grace has received many prizes and awards for her research, including the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for Service and Scholarship in 2013.